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Practice Experience

Kathryn Ng is an associate in the Energy, Infrastructure, Project and Asset Finance Practice (EIPAF) in London. Kathryn joined the firm after four and a half years in the Paris office of a major US law firm. Prior to that she worked in the New York office of a UK firm.

She has experience in a wide variety of finance transactions, including representation of lenders and borrowers in syndicated credit facilities, security arrangements, financings of ships and aircraft and cross-border leasing.
Representative transactions include:

Acted for Hungarian Telephone & Cable Corp. (HTCC) and its subsidiary Invitel on the financing of its acquisition of Memorex Telex Communications AG, which included a €100 million Subordinated Bridge Loan Facility with Merrill Lynch International and BNP Paribas as mandated lead arrangers and an amendment and restatement of its €165 million term and multicurrency revolving senior facilities agreement with BNP Paribas as mandated lead arranger. Invitel and Memorex are both leading telecommunications service providers in Central and Eastern Europe. The proceeds from the bridge loan were used to fund the acquisition and refinance a portion of Memorex's debt.

Representations (prior to joining White & Case) include:

Acting for the arranger and syndicate banks in a US$460 million senior secured financing of shipping containers for France’s largest shipping container group (3rd largest worldwide);
Acting for the arranger in a US$1.2 billion secured financing of eight new-build Post-Panamax vessels;
Acting for the borrower in a US$300 million secured bridge financing for its acquisition of Russian port facilities and railways; and
Acting for a French mobile phone operator as borrower in syndicated loan facilities of €1.2 billion and €450 million.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, 2007
New York State Bar, 1999

Education
JD, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, UCLA Law Review, 1998
MA, Political Science, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, 1993
BA, International Relations (honors), The Johns Hopkins University, The Hopkins-Nanjing Center (1991-1992), 1990

Languages
English
French

Citizenship
United States